CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
CO-OPERATION DAYS
June 15-16-17, 1933
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Camden Courier-Post - June 9, 1933 |
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STORES WILL JOIN IN BARGAIN
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A committee of the Merchants' Cooperative Association, headed by Harry A. Moran, secretary and manager of the the Hurley Store, has announced a three-day co-operative promotion which will be known as Camden's Co-operation Days.
All merchants of this city have been invited to participate in the event which will be outlined in newspaper and radio announcements. City and store decorations and entertainment features which may include the personal appearances of stage, radio, sports and screen stars are being arranged.
The whole event has been arranged because of recent disclosures, resulting from investigation made by the local publishers proving that local industrial employment and business conditions have shown a decided upward trend in the city within the past several months.
The committee includes Charles Gates, Camden manager of Sears, Roebuck & Company; J. B. Van Sciver, Jr. of J. B. Van Sciver; C. A. McGrew, manager of J. C. Penney; Lester Abrahamson of Lester's; S. Savage of Western Auto Supply; William Rothman of Barrett's Tire Shop; Leonard R. Baker of baker-flick; Samuel Auerbach of Auerbach's; N. Futernick of Futernick's; Max Peck of the Fashion Shop; Simon Abrahamson of Simon's; Michael LaSala of DiJulio-LaSala; Joseph Murdock, manager of the Stanley Theatre; W. L. Tushingham, business manager, and F. J. Kinsella, advertising director of the Courier-Post newspapers.
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Camden Courier-Post - June 12, 1933 |
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Merchants Here Join Hands In 3 Day Bargain Festival |
Camden merchants will unite during the last three days of this week to give South Jersey merchandise at unusually low prices.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be known as "co-operation days." The stores co-operating in this sales program will be open evenings to provide ample opportunity for patrons to take advantage of the offerings. Harry A. Moran, general manager of the Hurley Store, is chairman of the committee of merchants.
"New Deal" Successful
"Everywhere, on all lips, we hear of "the new deal" that President Roosevelt is so effectively putting into operation throughout this country," Mr. Moran said.
"A logical part of "the new deal," influenced by the return of public confidence, has been the re-employment of thousands of workers, the demand for merchandise and the inevitable increase in commodity costs.
"It is a well-recognized fact that wholesale prices in practically every staple commodity have seen substantial advances, particularly in the past 30 days. Increases in wholesale costs can only mean one thing: eventually the retailer must increase retail prices to the consumer as soon as stocks purchased or contracted for at the former lower wholesale quotations are exhausted.'
"Sensing this condition and knowing of the remarkable pickup in local industries that has been so splendidly reflected in full-time work and greatly increased number of employees, a group of Camden's most progressive merchants have decided that they could perform a worthy service to the South Jersey public by soliciting the co-operation of local industries and staging a bargain sales event, that would feature standard seasonal merchandise at pre-inflation prices.
Sets Twenty-Year Record
"Final plans are being completed and official announcement has just been made that the stores of all cooperating merchants will feature merchandise at the lowest prices in the past 20 years on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 'Co-operation days' has been selected as the most fitting title for the event and that the stores of participating merchants will remain open each evening to accommodate the large number of industrial workers, in particular, who cannot take advantage of regular shopping hours.
"These co-operation days represent a bargain festival in keeping with the spirit of the times. We anticipate a business volume that will far surpass anything the merchants of Camden have seen for years because the basis for this event has been planned on sound, constructive lines… a whole-hearted service to the people of this community at a time when our patrons most need the advantage we have thus been enabled to offer them.
"In addition to the greatest dollar for dollar values in the past 20 years, the committee hopes to be able to offer some free entertainment features to all our Camden visitors that will be of unusually high caliber."
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Senator Emerson L. Richards |
A Camden
event which will be heralded from coast to coast opens tomorrow. "Co-operation Days," a
unique and timely sales festival originated by Camden retail merchants in co-operation with local
industries, will be opened officially by the president of the New Jersey State Senate, Senator
Emerson
L. Richards, who will speak from the City Hall Plaza at noon.
Following Senator Richards' talk, the band of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Camden Post No. 980,
will give an unusual program.
For a half
hour preceding Senator Richards' address, Clyde Beatty, famous wild animal trainer of the
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, will tour the business district, dressed in the uniform he wears in his
daily
battle with 40 lions and tigers at the Hagenbeck-Wallace
Circus. Beatty has a remarkable following
among the younger folk and promises to draw a large crowd of young and old who are anxious to get a
close-up of this fearless personality.
The "Co-operation Days" event will be held for the remainder of the week and all participating stores, which include the leading retail merchants of this city, will remain open each evening to accommodate industrial workers who do not find time to shop at other hours.
Through co-operation of local industries and the foresight of these retail merchants, the South Jersey public is offered seasonal merchandise at pre-inflation prices. The committee, in charge announces their sincere belief that prices will be the lowest in 20 years and that this event unquestionably will mark the final opportunity for purchasing at such levels.
The upward trend in wholesale prices, since last March, is known to everyone and it is inevitable that retail prices must soon follow, because merchants must replace their stocks at much higher costs.
"Other entertainment features are being arranged for the succeeding days of the sale;" said Harry A. Moran, chairman of the "Co-operation Days" committee, "but we frankly advise the public of South Jersey to make it a point to attend on the opening day when stock selections are at their best, as, unquestionably, many items will be sold out before, the final day."
Camden business organizations participating in the "Co-operation Days" Sale and whose sincere support has made the event possible are: American Stores Company, Auerbach's Walk-Over Shop, Baker-Flick Company, Barrett, Bon Ton Millinery, California Giant Market, William E. Cross, Di Julio-La Sala Company, N. Fuhrman Company, Futernick's, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Horn & Hardart Baking Company, Hurley's, A. Kobus Sons, Lester, Myers & Lappin, The Naden Store, Parkway Baking Company, J. C. Penney Company, Public Service, Quaker Stores, Joseph Ruttenberg, Sears, Roebuck and Company, Simon's, Inc., J. B. Van Sciver Company, Walt Whitman Stores, Western Auto Stores, F. W. Woolworth Company.
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Today opens what probably will be the greatest community sales event in local history. It has been planned for many weeks by a number of prominent retail merchants and local manufacturers on a basis of seasonal merchandise at prices which prevailed prior to the recent advances in wholesale costs.
With thousands of South Jersey people recently re-employed and many factories working with capacity forces, in some instances on all overtime basis, the offering of merchandise at pre-inflation prices is performing a worthy service for many who have, for some time, been without employment. To all others, the "Co-operation Days" sales event presents an opportunity to get the utmost value for their dollars by exchanging them for all types of commodities on which wholesale prices have materially risen.
An excellent idea of just how substantially wholesale costs have increased- and why, of necessity, such increases must be quickly passed along to the retail buyer, is evidenced by the fact that woolens are quoted 50 percent higher; printcloths, 75 percent; copper, 60 percent; and so on throughout the whole range of raw and manufactured materials that enter into practically everything used in daily life.
Price Rises General
Coupled with these rising wholesale costs, and of course responsible for them is the tremendous demand and the spirit of co-operation with the policies of President Roosevelt. Substantial wage increases have been put into effect in textile mills and many other lines of manufacturing endeavor.
Activity in
cotton mills was reported, last week at the highest level in years and compared favorably with
the best employment records in the history of the industry. Steel mills are operating at their highest
level
since 1931 and freight car loadings are exceeding last year's figures, Building activity is at the
highest
level since 1931. Grain prices have shown a tremendous rise, as have beef, sugar, coffee and a score
of
other commodities.
More than 500 banks have been reopened throughout the country, many with restrictions lifted; during the past six weeks. All of these things are rapidly restoring public confidence and pointing the advisability of purchasing the things needed, or wanted, before prices go higher.
Camden is particularly fortunate in having a group of far-seeing retailers who, in the face of constantly lowering price levels for the last few years, were still willing, during this event, to continue to sell their present stocks at the lowest level of prices which have prevailed during the past 20 years.
'Aid Horne Industry'
One of the popular slogans. of the "Co-operation Days" event is "Buy What Your Neighbor Makes," and is a feature worthy of the most sincere consideration of everyone living in South Jersey. The more of those things made in local factories that are purchased locally, the greater the rate of employment and scale of wages paid to residents, friends and relatives employed by these industries. Their salaries and wages are in turn, spent for merchandise and services of local business people thus creating an endless chain that works for the greatest good of the greatest number at all times.
It is anticipated that the sales volume recorded in the stores of the merchants sponsoring this event today, Friday and Saturday will exceed the best three-day period in their history. Entertainment features are being provided to give a holiday atmosphere to the Camden business district. Street flags are being put up and participating stores are well decorated with "Co-operation Days" window cards and pennants.
At 11.30 today
Clyde Beatty, famous youthful wild animal trainer of the
Hagenbeck-
Wallace circus will stage a wrestling match with a "Depression" Tiger on the steps of City Hall and will
tour the Camden
business district garbed in the uniform he wears when staging his famous daily battle with numerous
lions and tigers. Senate President Emerson L. Richards will deliver an opening address on the City Hall
plaza at 12 noon and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Camden Post No. 980 popular band will play a
number of selections. .
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"Old Man Depression" went down for the count before the skill of Clyde Beatty, famous wild animal trainer, on the Court House plaza yesterday.
Some 1000 Camden citizens watched the death throes as "Co-operation Days" -a three-day community sales event- got under way.
Beatty, in Camden with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, staged a wrestling match with a man dressed in a tiger's skin and bearing a banner across his chest reading "Depression." Beatty won in one quick fall. Beatty was introduced by M. L. Gates, general manager of the Sears, Roebuck store.
Richards Makes Speech
This horse-play followed a speech by Senate President Emerson L. Richards in which he declared the way to lick the depression is to "go out and fight." He urged citizens to co-operate in the three-day sales saying that prices are more attractive now than ever.
Walter L. Tushingham, business manager of the Courier-Post Newspapers, presented Richards to the crowd.
Before his speech, Richards went to the seventeenth floor of city hall to pay his respects to Mayor Roy R. Stewart. The mayor was not in his office and his secretary said he did not know the mayor's whereabouts. Gosch was prepared to present a flag to the city, through the mayor, but no city commissioners could be found to accept it in his stead.
A bugle corps of V. F. W. Post No. 980 played martial music between speeches.
Epochal Sales Expected
Merchants are confident the affair will be the greatest community sales event in local history. It has been planned for many weeks by a number of prominent retail merchants and local manufacturers on a basis of seasonal merchandise at prices which prevailed prior to the recent advances in wholesale costs.
With hundreds of South Jersey people recently re-employed, and many factories working with capacity forces, in some instances on an overtime basis, the offering of merchandise at pre-inflation prices is performing a worthy service for many who have, for some time, been without employment. To all others, the "Co-operation Days" sales event presents an opportunity to get the utmost value for their dollars by exchanging them for all types of commodities on which wholesale prices have materially risen.
An excellent idea of just how substantially wholesale costs have increased, and why, of necessity, such increases must be quickly passed along to the retail buyer, is evidenced by the fact that woolens are quoted 50 percent higher; printcloths, 75 percent; copper, 60 percent; and so on throughout the whole range of raw and manufactured materials that enter into practically everything used in daily life.
Wage Increases Made
Coupled with these rising wholesale costs, and of course responsible for them is the tremendous demand and the spirit of co-operation with the policies of President Roosevelt. Substantial wage increases have been put into effect in textile mills, and many other lines of manufacturing endeavor.
Activity in cotton mills was reported, last week, at the highest level in years and compared favorably with the best employment records in the history of the industry. Steel mills are operating at their highest level since 1931 and freight car loadings are exceeding last year's figures. Building activity is at the highest level since 1931. Grain prices have shown a tremendous rise, as have beef, sugar, coffee and all sorts of other commodities.
More than 500 banks have been opened throughout the country, many, with restrictions lifted, during the past six weeks. All of these things are rapidly restoring public confidence and pointing the advisability of purchasing the things needed, or wanted, before prices go higher.
'Buy South Jersey'
Camden is particularly fortunate in having a group of far-seeing retailers who, in the face of constantly lowering price levels for the past few years, were still willing, during this event, to continue to sell their present stocks at the lowest level of prices which have prevailed during the past 20 years.
One of the popular slogans of the "Co-operation Days" event is "Buy What Your Neighbor Makes," and is a feature worthy of the most sincere consideration of everyone living in South Jersey. The more of those things made in local factories that are purchased locally, the greater the rate of employment and scale of wages paid to residents, friends and relatives employed by these industries. Their salaries and wages are in turn spent for merchandise and services of local business people, thus creating an endless chain that works for the greatest good of the greatest number at all times.
It is anticipated that the sales volume recorded in the stores of the merchants sponsoring this event to day, Friday and Saturday will exceed the best three-day period in their history. Entertainment features are being provided to give a holiday atmosphere to the Camden, business district. Street flags are being put up and participating stores are well decorated with "Co-operation Days" window cards and pennants.
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Today, Sears, Roebuck and Company in co-operation with the city of Camden will play host to Nancy Garner, Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Donald Novis and Welcome Lewis; stage and radio stars, in conjunction with the Camden Co-operation Days' jubilee.
Miss Garner, who is a first cousin to the vice president and one of his official hostesses, begins a nation wide tour in the interest of the "new deal" policy and begins this optimistic drive from Camden so that she may officially open the city's prosperity trade revival.
Arriving in Philadelphia at the Broad Street Station, she will be met by representatives of Sears, Roebuck and Company and Camden and escorted to Camden City Hall, where the entire entourage will be welcomed officially by Mayor Roy R. Stewart. Proceeding from there after addresses have been made and news reels have been taken, the party will go to the Hotel Walt Whitman for luncheon. However, present plans signify that a parade through Camden will possibly precede the luncheon.
Although these
people are the guests of Sears, Roebuck and
Company, that store does not lose sight of the civic significance of the occasion, in view of the fact
that Miss
Garner will act for the vice president in presenting to Camden his best wishes for the success of
Camden's jubilee.
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The "Co-operation Days" jubilee of the combined merchants of Camden ended Saturday with a visit to this city by stage and radio stars as guests of Sears, Roebuck and Company and the city.
The group of celebrities included Welcome Lewis, Nancy Garner, and her daughter, Louise Zenike; Donald Novis and Conrad Thibault. Nancy Garner is a first cousin of Vice President Garner, one of his official hostesses and is now beginning a nationwide tour in interest of the "new deal" policy.
The group was met at Broad Street station where they arrived in a special car with Martin A. Gosh, of the Sears publicity department, as host. They were escorted to Camden City Hall and welcomed by Mayor Roy R. Stewart.
The merchants' committee presented a large flag to the city, which was received by Mayor Stewart. The visiting stars were then guests at a luncheon in the Walt Whitman Hotel. In an address at the luncheon, Mayor Stewart lauded Camden as the "Centre of the Universe" and praised the Courier-Post Newspapers for the part they have played in trying to restore normal prosperity. He thanked all interests for their contribution toward the success of the "Co-operation Days" sales events arranged by the city's stores. He gave special praise to Sears, Roebuck and Company for its co-operation with the city and its merchants.
Response to Mayor Stewart's address was made by Howard Thurston, district manager of the Sears stores; Charles Gates, manager of the local store, and Gosh, all or whom assured co-operation of the store in any civic enterprise.
The dinner
guests, included the radio stars and Mayor
Stewart, D. Minard Shaw, district advertising manager
of Sears; Thurston Gates, A. Gosh, R. J. Mitchell, assistant to
the district manager; Mary A. Dickinson, Mrs. M. Loether, all of the Sears, Roebuck official family;
Harry A. Moran,
chairman Merchants Committee: William Wallace, Ida Laurlck,
E. Howard
Broome, secretary to the mayor; Samuel
Auerbach, William Rothman, Simon Abramson, Joseph V. Haas,
S.
Lester, M. Futernick, Charles F. Knapp, manager Walt
Whitman Hotel and Walter L. Tushingham, Courier-Post
Newspapers.
Following the dinner, the radio stars and guests were whisked with motorcycle escorts on an inspection tour of Central Airport, and then to the Sears store where a vast throng was on hand to see the noted artists. All the stars made brief talks over the air and then made a tour of the store.
